SHABDRATNA, the first Kannada Word processing Software was
launched by the then Director of Karnataka Govt. Computer
Center during January 1987. This was used extensively by
almost all Offices & Depts of the Govt. of Karnataka.

SRG Systems Pvt. Ltd. (Software Research Group) is one of the
leading research and development oriented software company in
India. SRG was started in 1984 by T. S. Muthu krishnan who is a
B.Tech from IIT Madras. He has more than 35 years of experience.

S R G was the first Indian company to produce and export packaged
software to European countries like West Germany, Holland,
Belgium, East Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia & Taiwan
and Middle East countries.

S R G, a professionally managed company, was the first to develop
packages in Indian Languages namely Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu,
Malayalam, Marathi, Gujrati & Bengali using Indigenous Knowhow
based on extensive experience in the field of Software
development.

SRG has developed several application Software Products and
Packaged Software Packages.

First developed a Word processing Software on Apple System
in USA for a Client in 1983-84.

During 1984-85 SRG had been developing application Software
for various Customers.

Subsequently developed WORDLORD on IBM PC which was later
Exported to Europe in 1985-86 and Far Eastern Countries in
1987.

SHABDRATNA, the first Kannada Word processing Software was
launched by the then Director of Karnataka Govt. Computer
Center during January 1987. This was used extensively by
almost all Offices & Depts of the Govt. of Karnataka.

Kannada DTP Software VENUS Publisher was launched in 1989.
This was used extensively by several Publishers of Kannada
books including NAL Mr. Srinatha Sastry. Govt. of Karnataka
is still using our DTP S/W for Budget presentation.

CHITRAKALA was specially developed for Door Dharshan Kendra,
Bangalore for Kannada Titling and graphics during 1990.

Several other Language Softwares were also released.

During 1993 developed DATA BASE Software Package INEX which
is a Kannada-English Business Software using which various
applications like Financial Accounting, Inventory, Payroll,
MRP, PPC etc. were released. INEX was launched by the then
Minister for Higher Education, Govt. of Karnataka.

During 1994 developed WINKEY Kannada interface for
Windows applications. This was also used extensively by most
of the Offices & Depts of the Govt. of Karnataka.

We had struggled hard to promote Kannada usage in Computers for
more than a decade without any assistance from Govt. of Karnataka
or any other body and even ignoring the more lucrative Commercial
Software development.

In fact we had spent more money for Research & development,
Training and Support for Kannada than we had earned. It was other
Language Softwares particularly Hindi & Tamil which helped us to
make some profit.

We had even provided our Kannada Software free of cost to several
Individuals including Mr. Srinatha Sastry for personal use and
thereby encouraged Kannada usage in Computers.

It is only after Kannada usage in Computers had fully spread as a
result of our promotion, suddenly some individuals found that they
can use the slogan “Kannada promotion” as a ploy to syphon out
Govt. funds which can be shared among them. They had even used
some good persons like Dr. Pavanaja for achieving their goal.

As we were already promoting Kannada without any Govt. funds and
also these individuals had no Technical or Linguistic expertise,
they had decided to use the “Back-door approach”.

First these vested interests formed a group with a catchy name
“Kannada Ganaka Parished” and entered themselves in the books of
Karnataka Govt. claiming to promote Kannada thru’ Computers.

They had implanted the idea of “Kannada Standards” in the minds of
un-suspecting Govt. Officials. They influenced the formation of
Standards committee without including the real users like Typists
or the Kannada Software Developers.

They had wasted Govt. money and time by establishing two
“Redundant Standards” for “Keyboard” which is harmful to
KANNADIGAS, as well as “Mono Lingual font” which is totally
useless as NUDI itself is using Bi-lingual font.

Thousands of POOR UNEMPLOYED KANNADIGAS spend what little money
they have on Kannada typing diploma courses and pass typing exams
using manual typewriter where the speed & accuracy are important.
By adopting a keyboard other than typewriter keyboard would defeat
the very purpose and completely destroy their future.

One can not Promote Kannada at the expense of POOR KANNADIGAS.
It is for this reason we had adopted typewriter keyboard for the
qualified Typists and at the same time provided phonetic typing
for other users.

Further we had written to D.I.T. on 30-6-2000 that most of the
Customers use Bi-lingual fonts and demanded the Standards for
Bi-lingual font. This was totally ignored by them.

After the NUDI Software was rejected by almost all Govt. Staff,
they came out with their own “Non-Standard” Bi-lingual font
thereby making the “Font Standard” as Redundant by themselves.

This was the level of intelligence at KGP.

Then they had influenced the Govt. to appoint themselves (KGP) as
the “Certifying Agency” for these “Redundant Standards” and forced
the Govt. to part with more than Rs. 2 Lakhs for this purpose.

They had also used certain Corrupt Govt. Officials to sanction
funds to the tune of Rs.27.65 lakhs for the Kannada Software
Development, which even a well established S/W Company will find
it difficult to achieve.

No standard procedure like Tender or Multiple Quotations was
followed by D.I.T. The KGP is not a Govt. body either.

KGP without any infrastructure for Software development, not even
a proper office or a Computer, was awarded such a huge Software
Contract. This also shows the level of Corruption and the
Influence they had used.

In fact we have not earned so much money during the last 17 years
of Kannada Software development.

KGP had already Certified our Software earlier. After the
“Contract” was awarded, KGP had no Idea of “How to go about”.

Hence, the second certification “Drama” was enacted jointly by
Corrupt Officials of the D.I.T. and the vested interests in KGP
with the sole aim of pirating the Kannada Software Technology of
the Software Developers.

They had asked the un-suspecting Software Developers to
demonstrate and explain the Language Technology to the “KGP team”
which included the part-time programmer who had later “developed”
NUDI.

It is humanly impossible for a part-time programmer to do Research
& development and come out with an Original Software in such a
short time. The Truth is simple common sense, obvious and glaring.

Then the “Certifying” Agency themselves “Certified” their own
“developed” Software NUDI and “sold” it to D.I.T. at a huge cost.

Obviously the vested interests in KGP would not have spent more
than Rs. 15,000/= for the part-time programmer. But they had
managed to syphon out Lakhs of Rupees of Govt. funds which was
obviously shared by these vested interests with those Corrupt
Officials of the D.I.T.

The claim of “saving money for the Govt.” is a fraud. As there is
no support or service, which the Software Developers provide, the
NUDI Software will be dumped by the user and entire money “spent”
for NUDI will go down the drain. If the Govt. wants to provide the
support or service, the cost will be enormous and will run into
crores of Rupees.

If at all the D.I.T. Officials wanted to save money for the Govt.
they should have called for Tender or Competitive Quotations
instead of accepting the “fancy prices” quoted by KGP. Or atleast
they should have approached CDAC or NCST which are Govt. bodies.

The main aim of this Corruption and Nepotism is to destroy Kannada
Software development in Karnataka. Such a rampant Corruption and
Nepotism has never happened in any other State in India.

This has totally destroyed small and medium Software Developers.
This has also resulted in the retrenchment of staff thereby
creating unemployment.

Later the half baked NUDI Software did not find any taker as almost
all Govt.Staff had rejected it. After finding that the resistance is too
strong, they had used the Hon’ble Chief Minister himself as a
“tool” to push the NUDI Software and thrust it down the throats of
the resisting Govt. Staff.

If this is called “KANNADA PROMOTION”, then I feel sorry for
KANNADA.

In addition to the above I have come across more documentary
evidences to prove the SWINDLING OF PUBLIC FUNDS by KGP with help
of D.I.T. namely :

1. Letter from Registrar of Societies about KGP.

2. Audited Financial Statements of KGP.

3. “Donation Receipt” for Selling of Govt. Property by KGP.

From the Letter from Registrar of Societies it is obvious that the
KGP is a DEFUNCT SOCIETY and is not entitled to receive any funds
from the Govt. However the KGP has already received Rs. 12,36,040
from the Govt. as of 31-3-2002. Further, they are also Selling the
Govt. Property and earning Interest from Govt. funds.

D.I.T. had stated that “The ownership of the software vests with
the Department and KGP has no right over it”. However KGP has been
selling the software CDs and had already earned Rs. 18,800 as of
31-3-2002 and still continuing to do so. This selling is being
done in a clandestine manner by calling it a “Donation”.

It is also evident from the Financial Statements of KGP that a sum
of Rs. 6.14 Lakhs, which was in excess of actual expenditure, is
being held in Bank deposits. While the Govt. is facing paucity of
funds and borrowing at high Interest, a DEFUNCT SOCIETY is holding
excess funds from the Govt. and earning Interest on Govt. funds.

Further, the Section 3 of THE KARNATAKA TRANSPARENCY IN PUBLIC
PROCUREMENT ACT 1999 exempts only the projects funded by
International Financial Agencies, which obviously means that all
other Govt. funded projects including this “DEAL” are
automatically covered by the ACT.

D.I.T’s repeated claim that KGP is a “NON PROFIT ORGANISATION”
itself amounts to cheating as Rs.27.65 Lakhs is virtually a
ransom. Even PROFIT making commercial establishments like ours can
develop for Rs.16.00 Lakhs and still make PROFIT.

The allegation of creation of Monopoly is also proved by the G.O.
Dated 27.12.2001 in which virtually all possible Kannada Softwares
are covered leaving NOTHING for other Software Developers thereby
depriving the Software Developers their right to survive and
“physically eliminating” them so that no body will be there to
question the illegal procurement of Kannada Software from the
KGP and the misuse of public fund.

While the crooks in KGP are syphoning out the Govt. Funds as
“Honourarium” to already employed / retired persons, the “Real
Promoters” of Kannada are forced to face the unemployment. This
amounts to “making the Rich Richer, the Poor Poorer”

It is highly deplorable to “monopolize” the Kannada Software
developments by encouraging the “Middle men” as KGP can not
develop any Software themselves .

As these vested interests were not really interested in promoting
Kannada, they had also indulged in playing politics by creating
Regional bias as some of the Developers including me are not
KANNADIGAS. It is in fact a good sign to note that NON-KANNADIGAS
are promoting Kannada and one should feel happy about that.

An innovative technology to localize MS DOS and all text based applications developed for MS DOS into Indian languages. This enabled text based applications like Wordstar, dbase etc to use Kannada. This software was demonstrated at the Vidhana soudha on 8th Aug 93 in the exhibition organized for the inauguration of Kannada jagruthi varsha celebrations.

Users : Any computer user whish to use the English software in his own language.

Product Name : SURABHI GEM

This is the first ever software enabled direct typing of Indian scripts like Kannada in the DTP softwares like Ventura Gem on MS DOS.

Users : Publishers, DTP centres etc.

Product Name : SURABHI PRO

First ever input interface software developed for MS Windows 3.0, which enabled direct typing of Indian scripts like Kannada into any of the application software.

Product Name : SURABHI2000

SURABHI 2000 is an Input enabling software for Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/NTTSE/XP through the choice of keyboard layouts. It provides direct typing facilities using various standard keyboard layouts, enables Find and Replace, keyboarding is auto-sensitive, comes with collection of fonts and enables hot keys and shortcut keys. It works with all popular MS Windows based applications like MS Office, StarOffice, OpenOffice, Lotus Smart Suite, Pagemaker, Photoshop, Hot Potatoe etc.,.

Product Name : SURABHI TOOLS

SURABHI TOOLS, Is a collection of tools to support Indian Languages on the Tools of MS Office running on MS Windows. This includes tools such as Sorting, Text conversion, Auto correct, Date and Time, Numerals to text etc.

Product name : SuJeeva

An interactive Web content enabling utility exclusively developed for Indian Languages to enable typing in Indian Languages in the Text fields, Text Area and Set fonts to Text fields, Text Area, Buttons and Body Text.

Product Name : e-Type

e-Type,is a compact embedded font solution developed exclusively to support Indian Languages and to facilitate localisation of Pagers, Mobile phones, Dot Matrix Printers and any digital gadgets. The compact code size also enables multi-lingual solutions in the power crunch digital gadgets. It is easy to implement, extremely portable and contains clear and understandable source code with documentation. With appropriate peripheral support like demo code, debug tools with source code and design manual, e-type enables excellent and seamless integration with short implementation period.

Janani is first time effort to localize MS Windows 98 and applications running on it. Janani is a boon to Indians and Indian languages. Janani localises the User Interfaces such as Menus, Dialog boxes, Status bar texts, Help tips etc., of MS Windows 98 and enables seamless integration of Language and Technology.

* Empowers to use the MS Windows 98 based computers in the choice of language of the user.

APPLESOFT, a software premier for Indian languages, has remained a prime and perhaps the sole organization over the past decade and a half which dedicates itself to extensive research on software in Indian languages. Its principal aim is to bridge the digital divide in society that arises due to lack of local language support resulting out of computerisation. Thus, this has been the driving motive behind Applesoft products.

It dedicates its work to research on software which enables a lay man use computers and other allied information technology gadgets in his own language. Its prime focus has been on software in areas of Indian Languages which are of immense value for the masses and has a direct bearing on proliferation of information technology to the masses in society. However, it has several prime contributions in the office automation, educational and communication arena as well. The unique feature of Applesoft has been that its concepts and approach has always remained timely, thorough and all the more, unique.

Over the years, the experience gained has enabled Applesoft widen its vision and horizon. From what started as providing software solutions for Indian languages on computers at Applesoft, it has diversified its area to cover almost the entire spread of digital media and includes neo IT gadgets of the sort of Pagers, Mobile phones, PDAs, Set top boxes etc. The experience gained over the years has positioned APPLESOFT as leader in IT for Indian Languages. It has thus encompassed the entire spread of software in Indian language and works in the direction of working in software technology in one’s own Mother tongue.No wonder its proficiency has had deep impact not only on the market, but has impacted the very trend in development of software in these prime areas of software in Indian languages and education. No wonder several organizations and even Governments look upon Applesoft for expertise, guidance and lead in prime areas in this field which have potentialities to shape further developments in society.

Unlike many other software companies, Applesoft came into being more than a decade ago and was set up during January 1990 with the motto of developing technologies to promote Indian Languages on digital media.

In the quest to be amongst the users, Applesoft undertakes extensive research of software products which has appeal and utility amongst the users. Over the years since its inception, it has concentrated its research efforts on development of software in Indian languages and has conceptualized several unique products. Having started its research on MS DOS and MS Windows platform, the Applesoft team has made sufficient foray into these and related areas. The experience thus gained has proved to be its biggest asset. This has enabled it to envision solutions for Indian languages that covers the entire spread of the digital media. This list covers neo-digital gadgets of the likes of Dot Matrix Printers, Pagers, Mobiles and Set-Top boxes. Applesoft today boasts of having expertise for any of the vernacular interfaces for any of the applications above.

Of all Applesoft’s contributions and products, Janani and Localiser are allied products which are innovations by itself and first of its kind in the market. These classic products stand tall and only goes to prove Applesoft’s distinction, innovativeness and the level of expertise in the field of software for Indian language. Janani, a remarkable achievement is a result of extensive research in the field of Indian language computing which is only one of its kind in the area of localisation. Janani runs in the background and translates all menus, dialogs and system generated messages of the international version of MS Windows 98 and other applications which run on it to Tamil. Even though this technology has been implemented with Tamil, the technology has been designed with multilingual requirement and can meet the requirements of other Indian languages. Localiser, yet another indigenously developed software to localize all text based resources of a software. It thus enables translate all menus, dialogs and system generated messages of that software to Tamil. these innovations have enabled a user who does not know English to use computers, applications and the related technology which was hither to a forbidden area for a person with working knowledge of Indian Language alone.

Applesoft’s high quality research in this remote, but highly involving specialty area of software in Indian languages has drawn widespread technical requests from peer and Government organizations as well. Applesoft, is not only a leader in this area, but is also a trend setter in the area of software development for Indian languages. Hence, it is often consulted upon for development of standards for Indian languages. Applesoft derives its motivation to be part of the standardization process due to its passion for Indian Languages and its standardization, which has widespread implications in both the development of the very language and the technology for softwares in Indian languages.

Applesoft, having developed technical expertise in-house and being sound at it, has allied areas of business interests. Amongst key areas of its businesses are: Consultancy on software development for Indian languages, Developing specialized fonts across languages that may be used for special applications, Customisation of software for Indian languages and specialized support for localisation of softwares.

Applesoft is the only one in the area of software in Indian languages which boasts of several products to its credit. The list includes:

1. Surabhi

2. Surabhi GEM

3. Surabhi Professional

4. Subase

5. Surabhi 2000

6. Surabhi UV

7. Sentamil 1A, 1B and 4

8. Tamil Chudar 1&2

9. e- Type

10. Surabhi Tools

11. Sujeeva

12. Visaithamizh

13. Nannool

14. Atral

15. Janani

16. Localiser

Applesoft has to its credit of having developed several allied technologies in the area of Indian Language computing:

·Antialiasing fonts.

·Vernacular interface to MS DOS.

·Vernacular interface to MS Windows 98.

·Multilingual keyboard Manager.

Generic Code Conversion.

The key projects that Applesoft has handled includes:

1. Voters ID card.

2. Multilingual Pager.

3. Shaktiman.

4. Tamil Ulagam.

5. Tamil Thendral.

6. Janani.

Applesoft is a corporate affiliate / invitee for several professional bodies of the likes of:

(a) An Invitee by Govt of Karnataka for Standardising Kannada on Computers and related to Electronic typewriter.

(b) Member of Unicode Standardisation Committee for Tamil.

(c)Member of COILTech Consortium.

(d)Member of High Level TDIL (Technology Development for Indian languages) R & D Working Group under the auspices of Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt of India, New Delhi.

(e)An Invitee by Telecommunication Engineering Centre, New Delhi for Standardising Indian Languages for Pagers (ISCLAP Standards)

Applesoft has a dedicated customer base spread across India and abroad apart from a dedicated dealer / distributor network. In India, various Government departments have been prime customers for products from Applesoft and have summarily been using them. The huge list runs to over 50 departments across Tamil Nadu and Karnataka predominantly and includes organizations like: International Institute of Tamil studies, Tamil Virtual University, ASMT, BEL, University of Michigan etc.It also has offshore customers and are based at USA, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Applesoft’s products for Tamil has a well established user base at Singapore. Applesoft has established a leadership for products in Tamil and Kannada languages.

APPLESOFT

Following are some of the products developed by APPLESOFT which supports Kannada.

Product Name : SURABHI

An innovative technology to localize MS DOS and all text based applications developed for MS DOS into Indian languages. This enabled text based applications like Wordstar, dbase etc to use Kannada. This software was demonstrated at the Vidhana soudha on 8th Aug 93 in the exhibition organized for the inauguration of Kannada jagruthi varsha celebrations.

Users : Any computer user whish to use the English software in his own language.

Product Name : SURABHI GEM

This is the first ever software enabled direct typing of Indian scripts like Kannada in the DTP softwares like Ventura Gem on MS DOS.

Users : Publishers, DTP centres etc.

Product Name : SURABHI PRO

First ever input interface software developed for MS Windows 3.0, which enabled direct typing of Indian scripts like Kannada into any of the application software.

Product Name : SURABHI2000

SURABHI 2000 is an Input enabling software for Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/NTTSE/XP through the choice of keyboard layouts. It provides direct typing facilities using various standard keyboard layouts, enables Find and Replace, keyboarding is auto-sensitive, comes with collection of fonts and enables hot keys and shortcut keys. It works with all popular MS Windows based applications like MS Office, StarOffice, OpenOffice, Lotus Smart Suite, Pagemaker, Photoshop, Hot Potatoe etc.,.

Product Name : SURABHI TOOLS

SURABHI TOOLS, Is a collection of tools to support Indian Languages on the Tools of MS Office running on MS Windows. This includes tools such as Sorting, Text conversion, Auto correct, Date and Time, Numerals to text etc.

Product name : SuJeeva

An interactive Web content enabling utility exclusively developed for Indian Languages to enable typing in Indian Languages in the Text fields, Text Area and Set fonts to Text fields, Text Area, Buttons and Body Text.

Product Name : e-Type

e-Type,is a compact embedded font solution developed exclusively to support Indian Languages and to facilitate localisation of Pagers, Mobile phones, Dot Matrix Printers and any digital gadgets. The compact code size also enables multi-lingual solutions in the power crunch digital gadgets. It is easy to implement, extremely portable and contains clear and understandable source code with documentation. With appropriate peripheral support like demo code, debug tools with source code and design manual, e-type enables excellent and seamless integration with short implementation period.

Janani is first time effort to localize MS Windows 98 and applications running on it. Janani is a boon to Indians and Indian languages. Janani localises the User Interfaces such as Menus, Dialog boxes, Status bar texts, Help tips etc., of MS Windows 98 and enables seamless integration of Language and Technology.

* Empowers to use the MS Windows 98 based computers in the choice of language of the user.

In all its reality KGP is not qualified for developing Kannada software on the following grounds:

1. KGP was not existing for three years prior to sanctioning funds.
2. KGP has not developed any software prior to sanctioning of funds.
3. KGP is a certifying agency. A certifying agency itself can’t enter into development of competitive products which they are supposed to certify as it is most illogic like a referee, umpire or an examiner himself taking the competition by himself.

KGP doesn’t have any expertise in developing software. KGP has developed Nudi in a clandestine manner. As KGP is the certifying agency, all the Kannada software developers have submitted their software. KGP gained inner details by means of demonstration and discussions etc with developers (please note that GoK has not disclosed any details on developing their Kannada software Nudi). KGP pirated the fonts submitted to it by various Kannada software developers.

Santhosh
I guess I may not agree with you in many respects. Though we are getting draged to discuss many issues, since you have told they have some bearing with Kannada, let me write atleat what I understand. I guess this will rest this discussion and steer us towards what we set out to work for. The britishers ruled India for more than 300 years. They had the complete control over Indian administration. Did they try to get rid of Hinduism? Did it happen even if they tried? Instead, we can give lots of useful works they have done during their rule over India.

Also, they never tried to kill Kannada language. For a few examples of how they infact tried to uplift Kannada is:
1. Lord Cubbon implemented Kannada in the administration by learning it (our Cubbon Park is named after him)
2. Reverand Ferthinand Kittel wrote the finest Kannada Dictionary for Kannada who happened to be a foreigner and a Christian
3. One Christian foreigner told Kuvempu to write in Kannada which unleashed the genius of Kuvempu for Kannada upliftment
4. A german Christian has brought some fine works of Sri Haridasa which no Kannadiga has done, which has got the appreciation of many a critiques
5. The Christ college Kannada Sangha has brought some of the finest literary works for Kannada (an example is : Sri H.S Raghavendra Rao’s thesis
named “haaDe haadiya tOritu”, which correlates the works of Sri Kuvempu, Sri Bendre and Sri putina)

In christianity also, there are lots of varied faiths like Pagans, Protestants, Catholics, etc, similar to what you have said like Dwaitha, Advaitha etc. which means they have a freedom to think and choose a faith and I guess they have not been killed. These are only a few that I can remember at this moment. I personally have many Christian friends (converted ones) who have a very good opinion of Hinduism. They are not advocating anyone to get into Christianity. They are living happily with us and happen to know some of the very interesting facts and details of Hindu sacred works. How can I complain them? To your kind information, let me share some interesting information. During the 12th century, people from Bengal came to Karnataka (Sri. Basaveshwara’s “anubhava maMTapa”). They learnt Kannada to discuss with people here and went to their place and spread their ideas. Who knows the great saint/prophet Sri. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Sri. Vivekananda have had these ideas sown by their ancestors which they have given us! This may look ridiculous but cannot be ruled out. This is how the discussion get turned to some unwanted ends. That is why I never wanted to get into this riddle. Many a great people have tried on these reforms. We can be inspired by them. Let us do what is possible for us. What we can do at this moment is use more Kannada and do in our possibility to improve kannada. I am more interested (only interested) in this. Anyway, thanks for writing.

SANTHOSH <santhoshgr@rediffmail.com> wrote:

Sadashiv ravarE,
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 Sada Shiva wrote :
>If a person finds shelter under a different faith, what do we lose?
If a person changes his faith within the religions which took birth in India(i,e, dvaita, advaita, shiva, vaishnava, virashaiva, sikh, jaina, baudda etc.) then there is no problem. But if a person who changes his faith to a religion with foriegn origin (like christianity and islam) then it is a very dangarous to us.

J C kumarappa, a converted Christian (who became a Gandhian) has told,
Foreign countries will try to capture India using four forces, first three are Army, Navy and Airforce. The fourth power was missionaries. The fourth force will destroy and decay the nation internally.

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 Sada Shiva wrote :
>We can give hundreds of reasons why they are getting converted. Let this kind of discussion stop here. If a person finds shelter under a different faith, what do we lose? Please don’t think I am for conversion. If those converted become non-Kannadigas, that should worry us.
>
>

E-MAIL CAMPAIGN TO IMPLEMENT MAHISHI REPORThttp://www.starofmysore.com/main.asp?type=news&item=7340Mysore , Sept. 17 (KCU)- An e-mail signature campaign from Kannadigas all over the world has been launched by V. M. Kumaraswamy, founder of e-Kavi, a forum of Kannada lovers from all over the world, to urge the Government to implement the Dr. Sarojini Mahishi Report.